saying is the most horrific sports injury ever caught on camera. if you were watching this game last night you know exactly what i'm talking about. we'll tell you how kevin ware is this morning. how ware and his broken leg are doing this morning and also what about future playing? we'll find out. >> that was just awful. >> before you get pranked today we'll tell you about the april fools' tricks from youtube to twitter to google. be prepared. >> hmm. >> it is monday. april 1st. "starting point" begins right now. our "starting point" is in texas where a district attorney who vowed to hunt down his deputy's killer has himself become a murder victim. mike mclelland and his wife gunned down this weekend in their home southeast of dallas. this is the same county where less than two months ago mclelland's colleague mark hasse was shot and killed on his way to work. >> a manhunt is under way for the killer, possibly killers,

and the small dallas suburb certainly on edge this morning. george howell is live from kaufman, texas, and george i know investigators, they're not saying a lot yet are they in terms of any more on these, killings. >> brooke, no. they're not. and you know, as far as linking these two killings, they're not doing that either. but when you talk to people here in town, when you talk to public officials, they do make the point, they say that these men, these prosecutors worked very closely together on similar cases. many people believe the people we spoke to believe that this may have been a revenge hit. again, police are not linking the killings, they are not giving any more information as to what they've already put out there, but the unanswered questions, brooke, in this case have this community consumed with fears. >> we're going to find you. we're going to pull you out of whatever hole you're in, we're going to bring you back and let the people of kaufman county

prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law. >> reporter: a promise from kaufman county, texas, district attorney mike mclelland two months ago to the unknown killer of an assistant d.a. in his office. a promise, though, he would never see fulfilled. saturday night police found the bodies of the d.a. and his wife cynthia at their home. >> they both had been shot and we are in the process of completing the crime scene workup right now. >> reporter: an investigator says police found several shell casings inside the home from a high-powered rifle. >> it's pretty obvious it's unnerving, and it's unnerving to the law enforcement community, it's unnerving to the community at large. >> reporter: there are no suspects. and the sheriff's office has not officially said whether the mclellands' deaths are connected to the killing of kaufman county assistant d.a. who was shot outside the county courthouse in january. the sheriff says extra precautions are being taken to

protect county elected officials, as well as the public. >> there will be complete security at the courthouse tomorrow. visible security. >> reporter: mclelland said his coworkers were like a family, but they all knew their job came with risks. >> when you deal with bad people on a regular basis, you know that there's always the potential for these bad people to do something bad to you, because they've already done something bad to somebody else. and so they could always concentrate and backlash on you. >> and george howell, thank you very much. live with us this morning an attorney who handled multiple cases in kaufman county, also knew mclelland. good morning to you. if you can, just help us understand, as we mentioned you met mike mclelland on several occasions. just the mood in this smaller, texas, county, how palpable is the fear there? >> you know, the law enforcement

community here is very uncomfortable. i mean we're talking about, you know, we have a county just west of here, dallas county has got about 2 million people in it and we're standing in a county that's got about 100,000 people in the entire county. everybody knew each other here. it was a great place to practice law. everybody liked the district attorney's office. there just wasn't a lot of activity out here. the biggest shock out here this morning is why, in kaufman, texas, are we having a assistant d.a. get killed and an elected d.a. it's really sending some shockwaves through the community. >> you say you're on edge. mike mclelland had been talking reportedly by the soerked press, had been talking about carrying a handgun every minute of every day even when he was talking about a dog just for extra protection. he was also very public about his hunt for the killer in the hasse case. let's listen to what he said right there. >> anything that you people can do to accelerate getting our hands on this scum will be appreciated. >> now that first killing was

two months ago now. why do you think there hasn't been more, at least public leads in that first case? >> you know, there just hasn't been a lot of information that's been provided. i mean, you know, the killing of mark hasse, who was the assistant d.a., there was some speculation that it may not have been tied to his work at the d.a.'s office. it could have been something personal of nature. and it really didn't make a lot of headlines. i think now that the elected d.a. here has been killed and it's making national headlines hopefully we're going to get some leads and law enforcement personnel down here to find out who's responsible. i mean we've got to. i mean this is our local criminal justice system. most people who they're going to deal with it are going to dpoea with it at the county level and taking out the elected d.a. in such a small county in texas makes every elected d.a. vulnerable. and that's the mood this morning. >> let me also ask you we just saw the clip with mike mclelland referring to these killers as scum. he's this 23-year-old army veteran, tough talking guy.

what's the talk around town about that? >> yeah, he was. he was an army veteran, practiced law here for several years, 18 years before he ran for first public office. three years ago, in 2010, and beat out the incumbent district attorney three years ago and took over. he kept a lot of the same personnel out here. he kept the same policies and procedures in place, and he was very well liked. people would see him throughout the town. he was very personable. everybody knew that when he was in charge, you know, communities in kaufman would be safe. so, great guy. i mean it's a big loss for the entire north texas region. >> absolutely tragic all the way around. thank you very much. we're going to talk much more on this story. we'll talk to the kaufman county judge bruce wood. he worked with mclelland and hasse and in the next hour we're talk to the may william fortner and texas congressman ted poe. >> everyone is talking about one game and one awful moment in the final four march madness.

sophomore guard kevin ware shattering his leg. this was so awful, so gruesome, it left players and coaches on both teams in tears. we're not even going to show it to you because frankly it is just too tough to watch this morning. kevin ware did put out this instagram picture overnight. shows him in a hospital bed with louisville's trophy. they did go on to win the game. they won the midwest regional. louisville head coach rick pitino who was in tears on the court said his whole team was inspired by ware who told them, i'll be fine, just go win the game. cnn's jared greenberg is live in atlanta. i've never seen anything like this, jared. >> certainly not on the basketball court. you would expect an injury like this from football or soccer or hockey. this is the talk of the country. kevin ware's injury. he will not be available for the final four. the sophomore is providing his teammates with a level of motivation that simply cannot be measured. known for his tenacious defense his injury occurred when he gave his all attempting to contest a

shot. the aftermath left everyone in the stadium stunned. emotion between the lines, as you know, is a rare sight. especially when it has nothing to do with winning or losing. tears were everywhere as louisville felt for a fallen teammate as ware was rushed to a hospital the cardinals played inspired basketball outscoring duke by 19 in the second half earning louisville a trip to the final four this year to be played in atlanta. not far from ware's high school. a destination that louisville head coach rick pitino said is a bittersweet next step on the cardinals' mission to win a title. >> if we let up for a second, then kevin ware doesn't mean how much he means to us. i said we're going to dig in. we're going to play this game to the end. we're going to get him back home. nurse him to good health. and we're going to get him to atlanta. >> surgery to repair ware's broken leg was successful. he'll remain in the hospital until at least tomorrow. >> all right. >> the school says they are

hopeful that he will return with the team and hopefully travel to atlanta for the final four. >> that would be amazing if he makes that trip. thanks to you. >> just the presence on the court will help his team come saturday. want to talk a little bit more about this injury with cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. and i know this was an open fracture. his right tibia. he's already undergone surgery. what did doctors have to do, elizabeth? >> the first thing you mentioned that it broke the skin, brooke, the first thing they worry about is infection. making sure to keep that site clean then they go in and do surgery, they fix it, they did this very quickly. i was talking to ordrt pedic surgeons not involved with his care and they said it looked gruesome but it's relatively easy to fix. you put a rod, steel or titanium, put a rod in that bone so he's now got a rod in his shin bone, and it works quite well. it was a two-hour surgery. and believe it or not, brooke, they told me that people on him

are standing up on crutches the next day. like today. >> no way. >> so even though it looks so horrible it really is quite fixable. >> we should all be hoping for is that he gets up and walks again. he's perfectly healthy. but there are a lot of people asking this question right now, could he possibly get back on the court sometime next season? >> you know, the orthopedist i speak to, both of whom have treated athletes with these kind of injuries, they said yes. they said they were very hopeful that he would be up and playing basketball maybe in like six months or so. they said it's really, again, relatively easy to repair these intensive physical therapy, every day for many months, but they thought in six months, let's say when the next season starts, that he would be able to play. they said they've seen it happen with other professional and college athletes. >> let's hope that's the case. that would be amazing. elizabeth cohen our thanks to you. >> thanks. >> christine romans has the rest of the top stories. a rescue mission gone tragically wrong in the alaska wilderness. a state trooper's helicopter

picked up a person stranded on a snow mobile saturday night, then the chopper went down. the wreckage was found yesterday. authorities say they didn't find any survivors. the pilot, a trooper, and the rescued snowmobiler were on board. it's not clear why that helicopter crashed. new developments in what looked like a brazen kidnapping in new york. police now think the whole thing was staged. surveillance cameras caught the apparent kidnappers on tape eventually they forced a couple into a minivan and speed off. the nypd says no one in the area has been reported missing. they think a group of friends did this as some kind of elaborate birthday prank. south korea's president promising to strike back if the north stages an attack. it comes just as the u.s. deployed two health fighters to seoul for joint military exercises. north korean leader kim jong-un ratcheted up the rhetoric of late. new york congressman peter king says kim is a diplomat unknown and shouldn't be taken lightly. >> it's not an empty threat.

i wouldn't be that concerned about the mainland u.s. right now. or even any u.s. territory. i think the real threat is to what north korea might be boxing itself into. kim jong-un is trying to establish himself. he's trying to be the tough guy. >> over the weekend, north korea declared it was a state of war with the south. power company officials say a deadly accident at a nuclear plant in arkansas did not put the public in danger. one worker was killed, three others injured, entergy, the power company, says the victims were helping move part of a generator out of the building when it fell and they insist the accident did not happen in a radiation area and the reactor was not affected. three people killed in a spectacular 95-vehicle crash along the virginia/north carolina border. 25 others taken to hospitals. this crash is described as a series, a chain of 17 separate wrecks. in one of them, the bed of a tractor trailer caught fire after it collided withix cars.

all lanes of interstate 77 have now been reopened. investigators say they believe weather was a factor. meteorologist jennifer delgado joins us now to explain. good morning. >> good morning, christine. weather was a factor especially when you have visibility down to less than a quarter mile. that's what we're seeing for some of those reports. now the area zoom in a bit more for you located roughly about eight miles north of north carolina into virginia right along mile marker six. it's in carroll county. as we zoom in for you. want to point out the ridges here. of course these are part of the blue ridge mountains. when you get interstate 11 which is basically moving through a valley area you get this fog and it sets up and some of these locations we're talking about fog can develop very quickly and dissipate very quickly as well. but sometimes it takes longer like what we saw on that car accident. as i take you over and show you our graphic, if you happen to be caught up in fog, make sure you slow down. and if you're driving, your first instinct is to turn those

bright lights on but the problem is when you turn your lights on bright that actually causes the light to reflect off the fog. so that reduces your visibility even more. and don't try to drive close and try to ride the taillights of the person ahead of you because, of course, somebody can come hit you from right from behind. talking about fog we do have an advisory in place for northern virginia as well as into maryland. this is in place until 9:00 a.m. we're seeing visibility down to half mile, even down to 1/8 mile in parts. make sure you're careful on the roadways and the same for areas down toward the south also dealing with the same advisory until about 9:00 a.m. christine you have to be careful on the road and drive slowly. >> all right, jennifer delgado, thanks. 17 separate wrecks. chain reaction, took hours, hours for tow truck drivers to pull all those cars off the road. >> i wish that was a joke or a prank. it's not. but it is april 1st. watch your back today. i'm just saying watch your back. i'm a little bit of a prankster.

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erratically in the parking lot before he plowed through the front entrance. he could have been going as fast as 40 miles per hour. police say he got out of the car, picked up a blunt object and used it as a weapon against customers. it was obviously a very scary situation for those people inside. >> he almost ran me over, and some guy picked my bike up hit the back of his car and he was going inside the car -- i mean inside the front door i mean -- i mean he was in interest to hurt people you know. >> now four people were hurt including one walmart employee who was hurt seriously. we also understand that customers played an instrumental role in subduing the attacker. they tied him up until police got there. we're not hearing very many details about the suspect other than he's in his 30s. so far police have not released a motive. john? >> i got to say the picture of that car in the walmart is just crazy. >> crazy. >> nick thanks so much. >> unbelievable. >> 20 minutes after the hour. that aside, it is frankly the

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bottom of the hour. welcome back to "starting point." this intense manhunt is under way in suburban dallas right now. police trying to find whoever gunned down the district attorney and his wife in their own home >> prosecutor mike mclelland and his wife, they were found shot to death saturday morning in kaufman county and what some are saying could be a revenge hit. just two months ago, you may remember the mclelland's assistant district attorney was gunned down near a courthouse as he walked to work. a lot of people on edge this morning. george howell is live in kaufman, texas. there's a lot of talk this morning about highs to this and the possible tie to the aryan brotherhood of texas.

>> when it comes to the tie, the possible tie, and we want to underscore possible tie to the aryan brotherhood, john, here's what we understand, back in december the texas dps, department of public safety, put out a bulletin warning authorities that they had credible information that the aryan brotherhood was actively targeting, would actively target law enforcement. now that question certainly came up after hasse's death. and you know, it's a question that has come up in this case. but again, want to be very clear, there's been no connection to that at this point. but you do hear people here in kaufman saying that these two mean men these prosecutors worked on cases that were very similar and they believe that these men may have been targeted so this could have been a targeted revenge hit. when you think about this, when you think about mclelland. he was very adamant. he was very determined to find hasse's killer, and it's chilling, really, to listen to what he said, the way he said

it, just after hasse's murder. i want you to listen to this. >> i hope that the people that did this are watching. because, we're very confident that we're going to find you, we're going to pull you out of whatever hole you're in, we're going to bring you back and let the people of kaufman county prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law. >> john, this was a tough-talking prosecutor who did not pull punches. you heard him say he would pull the person out of the hole that they're in, and another instance, referred to them as scum. this is a prosecutor who did not pull any punches when taking his place to the public, john. >> george, here's my question, obviously the investigation goes into full throttle, today beyond that what more happens in kaufman county? >> what we know today, the courthouse, it will open today, with heightened security.

we'll see a lot of security around the courthouse. but the district attorney's office, brooke, it will remain closed, as these investigators do their best to figure out who's behind this, to figure out a motive, and as we continue to ask questions, we hope to learn a little bit more about what investigators are looking into. >> george howell in kaufman county. we're about to talk to the judge in kaufman county. really one of the biggest differences when you look at the killing of the assistant district attorney just a little more than two months ago, it was a pretty clean hit. when you read about what happened he was in the parking lot outside of this courthouse you know so far at least publicly no major leads. then when you compare that to what happened just over the weekend with mr. mclelland and his wife. all kinds of shell casings left. dallas morning news is reporting they're hoping that some surveillance video there at the house will help them at least find the perpetrator. >> and also it is so chilling to hear mclelland talk about that first killing. chilling to hear him the tough talk also the associated press reporting that he was carrying a gun everywhere he went.

>> walking the dog. >> every day. >> just to be extra safe. and in the end, still murdered at his home over the weekend. >> we mention the judge. he is bruce wood. he is a judge in compton county, texas. worked with both men. judge, good morning. let me just begin with mike mclelland. i know you've talked to him just last week. what was your conversation like? how did he seem? >> well, we are a relatively small courthouse. we have a -- we're a small county. we're growing, but i did talk with mike several times over the last few weeks and what you saw on television with mike was very much his persona. and that was not a put-on. that was his everyday lifestyle. he was a very outgoing person. and was very dedicated to finding the killer of mark hasse. >> judge wood, you know, we've talked about this community being on edge right now. a short time ago i spoke with

former assistant fbi director tom even if tess about the threat faced right now by law enforcement personnel in that community. let's listen. >> for anybody involved in the criminal justice system all the way up as we saw in colorado, with the director of corrections, tom clement. people are out there that you deal with that hate you, and if they get an opportunity, may take your life. >> judge, now two killings in two months. you are a judge in this community. give me a sense of what the feeling is right now. >> well we are all on heightened alert. there's no question about that. we are following the directions, we've been given by law enforcement, as far as what we should be doing, what -- how we should be connecting our daily base. not only at work but certainly our personal lives, as well. and i do know that the law enforcement starting with our sheriff's department and the other texas rangers, the fbi, the atf, i mean we have a lot of

very professional groups that are helping in this investigation but saying all that. we also know that we have to be on the alert, as well. and so everybody that works in the courthouse, obviously there will be additional security today. but we all will be taking care of each other and without going into specifics obviously we will not do that but i can tell you the people that work in the courthouse, and the visitors that come to the courthouse today, and the rest of the time that we are dealing with this, and even in the future, they will certain be able to come to a secure facility and law enforcement again is making sure that happens. >> guys, i just want to ask about this group, this aryan brotherhood of texas. because i know back in december there was a bulletin basically warning of retaliations from strikes from this group specifically in the state of texas and they were apparently calling for let me quote them

mass casualties or death. what more do you know about this group as a judge in kaufman county? was this a group that you were familiar with? did you have to sign off on, on anything there at the courthouse regarding them? >> no. i'm not involved in criminal cases. >> okay. >> in the courthouse. we have other judges that take care of that. but what i know about the aryan brotherhood is really what i've heard on the news, as well as in the printed press. and i'm not involved in day-to-day investigation and will not get into that. i'm not knowledgeable of all the facets of this investigation -- of this investigation. >> understand, judge bruce wood thank you so much. we're sorry for losing these two folks in your county. >> well, thank you very much. >> coming up next hour we will hear from the mayor of kaufman, mayor william fortner and we will also speak with texas congressman ted poe. also a breaking story coming into cnn right now. christine romans has that. >> following this right now

coming in to us at cnn the suspicious device in a passenger's carry-on luggage has evacuated the north terminal at detroit metropolitan airport. airport spokesman says this only affects the north terminal, not its main hub. explosive device teams on the s. we're going to bring you more as soon as it becomes available. a suspicious device in a passenger's bag. we could learn this morning if prosecutors will ask the death penalty for aurora movie theater shooting suspect james holmes. the defense lawyers have offered to have holmes plead guilty if the death penalty is taken off the table. the state has so far rejected that offer. holmes is charged with murdering 12 people and wounding 58 in that movie theater rampage. teachers, principals, a retired superintendent, and some other school employees reporting to jail this morning in atlanta, nearly three dozen educators accused in a cheating scandal. they've been indicted on racketeering charges for allegedly changing students' standardized test scores and then covering it up.

investigators say top school officials got bonuses based on bogus test rules. after six nights stranded on snowy mount hood a 23-year-old oregon woman is recovering from a severe leg injury and frostbite. hiker mary owens was rescued saturday morning by a national guard helicopter. she credits a dwindling supply of snack bars for her survival. >> i found out that nutri-grain bar wraples make really nice kindling, oddly enough. and so i was able to put together a good fire. it didn't last very long, but it was just because i wasn't -- i didn't have the range of motion to be able to go and collect enough to keep it going very long. so i mean it was enough to dry me out and heat up my hands and stuff which was good because my hands were getting pretty nasty. >> six cold six frightening days. owens was hiking alone when she encountered whiteout conditions tat left her disoriented. she became stranded after a 40-foot fall badly injured her leg. and a smile on her face. >> nutri-grain wrappers. >> i told you, you looked at me

when i said wrappers. >> i was thinking like jay-z. >> candy wrappers. i told you. >> thanks, berman. >> 39 minutes after the hour. two men in china are dead after being infected with a strain fl humans. this is being called the h7n9 strain. china's official news agency also reports a third person a woman is in critical condition this morning. our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins us now. elizabeth what do we know about this strain of flu and of course the question in the u.s. we want to know is could it come here? >> right, john from what we know and there's a lot we don't know because it's so new, but from what we know it looks very much like other strains of avian flu meaning that the victims develop pneumonia, difficulty breathing, and experts believe that this started, this strain came from wild birds, went to poll try and then went to humans. and john in answer to your owe question there's not a lot of fear that it will come to this country. avian flu does not spread easily

person-to-person. for example, in these cases, they interviewed dozens of people who were in close contact with these three victims, family members, close contacts, and none of them have gotten sick. so when you see that, you know that there's no reason to panic here. >> all right. a reason for calm there even if the headline is a little startling. >> thanks, elizabeth. it is supposed to be the true signal. is spring coming up? we'll tell you why opening day for at least two baseball teams is anything but a warm start plus the final four, all in the bleacher report. >> and what's it like being married to a doctor in one of the country's top medical communities, and being on reality tv all at the same time? we're going to talk with quad webb lunceford, one of the stars of the new show "heamarried to medicine. ve ingredient plus the comfort of a stool softener for gentle, overnight relief of occasional constipation. go to senokot-s.com for savings.

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college basketball final four is set after yesterday's games but the louisville cardinals are going to be without a player after just an awful injury yesterday. jared greenberg is here with today's bleacher report. >> hey, john and brooke. just a horrific scene. we won't show you the actual injury to louisville sophomore kevin ware.

however the aftermath was simply surreal. raw emotions between the lines, as players, coaches and fans couldn't believe the graphic nature of ware's injury. a broken leg forcing the pause button to be hit on one of the most anticipated games of the season. everyone in attendance was visibly shaken. with their teammate headed to the hospital louisville regroups. the cardinals went on a run turning a tight game into a one-sided affair sending louisville to the final four in atlanta. mission accomplished with more meaning than ever afterwards coach rick pitino said that ware told his teammates to quote win the game. >> if we let up for a second, then kevin ware doesn't mean how much he means to us. i said we're going to dig in, we're going to play this game to the end, we're going to get him back home, nurse him to good health and we're going to get him to atlanta. >> that's where he attended college high school rather about 25 miles outside the city.

here's a picture tweeted of ware from his hospital bed holding the midwest regional trophy. surgery to repair the broken bone in his leg was successful. he'll remain in the hospital until at least tomorrow. 20 years after the last trip to the final four michigan is two wins away from the national title. they were on fire, leading to a no doubt about it victory over florida. michigan advances to take on syracuse. the wolverines and orange is a classic match-up. we'll see how the emotion carries over for louisville when they take on this year's cinderella squad wichita state with the national k4r78 to be crowned monday evening. the victims of the tragic shooting at sandy hook elementary remembered as the 2013 baseball season got under way last night. after 50 years playing at the national league houston played its first game as a member of the american league. for the team payroll less than what alex rodriguez will make this season the astros surprisingly powered their way to an opening night win. firstull d of baseball today

a couple of notable match-ups latest chapter of the most intense rivalry in the game will be written as john cheers hardly for the cheers very hard i should say for boston as they travel to new york to take on the yankees the defending champs start in l.a. against the dodgers and the reds at home will take on the angels. and be sure to logon to bleacherreport.com for major league baseball power rankings. and it should be noted that it appears that a cruel april fools' joke is being played by mother nature. pack your winter clothes, temps 10 to 20 degrees below normal. to put that in perspective, the home openers in chicago and minnesota calling for temps in just the 30s. >> yikes. >> i love how he said you'll be cheering hard or maybe hardly depending -- >> after what happened last year. not to rub it in at all. >> so much reason to hope. the expectations are so low. >> jared greenberg thank you so much. >> we poke fun because we love. good luck to you by the way. next hour we will be hearing

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1.9 million watched the premiere. that's a boat load of people. people love this. what's the secret sauce, why the combination of medicine and reality? >> i think people are infatuated with medicine. they want to know what's going on on. we look at some of the scripted shows. general hospital. we were clued in. now this is unscripted, so it's just firing. >> so what is it like being married to a psychiatrist? >> it's interesting. my issues very analytical. in fact we both are. >> you say i did not marry medicine, medicine was lucky enough to marry me. >> catch that dirt. >> along those lines, you have a lot of catch phrases. let's listen in. >> when i met you, i was open to

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good monday morning. thank you for being with us. our starting point this morning, intent manhunt for a killer or killers who murdered a district attorney and his wife. this all comes just two months after another prosecutor was gunned down in the very same texas town. and now police are trying to find the suspect. also this morning, a 5-year-old with disabilities bullied on the school bus. and you're absolutely not going to believe who did this. >> such a high price to pay to reach the final four. star louisville guard snapping his legs trying to block a shot. will kevin ware ever play again? we'll tell you the prognosis. and it may surprise you. >> and only in california. a hare hog. why the easter bunny got pulled over by police. happy april fool's. "starting point" begins right

now. our starting point this morning, kaufman county where half a dozen agencies are on the hunt this morning for the killer, possibly killers apparently bent on taking out top criminal justice officials. you have this man, district attorney mike mclelland and his wife, they were shot to death over the weekend in their home. all of this happening two months after assistant district attorney mark hasse was gunned down and brougin broad daylight. >> the small dallas suburb on edge and there seems to an strong connection between the crimes. george howell live. what are investigators saying this morning? >> reporter: no new leads in this case. investigators are not any closer, at least they're not telling us if they're any closer to narrowing down a suspect in

this case. there are a lot of questions here this morning. but when you talk to people, we've talked to some public officials here in town, they believe that mr. will mclelland might have been targeted,e also because they worked closely on similar cases. it may have been a revenge hit. now, again, investigators are not saying that, they're not linking these killings. but these unanswered questions leave the community in fear. >> we're going to find you. we'll pull you out of whatever hole you're in, and we'll bring you back and lit the people of kaufman county prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law. >> reporter: a promise from kaufman county texas district attorney mike mclelland two months a as ago, a promise he w never see fulfilled. saturday night police found the bodies of the d after the and his wife cynthia at their home. >> both have been shot.

we are in the process of completing the crime scene work joup right now. >> reporter: police found several shell casings inside the home from a high powered rifle. >> pretty obvious it's unnerving and it's unnerving to the law enforcement community, unnerving toed community at large. >> there are no suspects and the sheriff's office have not officially said whether the deaths are connected to the killing of mark hasse. the sheriff says extra precautions are being taken to protect county elected officials as well as the public. mclelland said his co-workers were like a family, but they all knew their job came with risks. >> when you deal with bad people on a regular basis, you know that there is always the potential for these bad people to do something bad to you

because they have already done something bad to somebody else. so they could always concentrate and backlash on you. >> now with us we have the mayor of kaufman, william fortner. mr. mayor, good morning. how is your community holding up? >> the community is holding up fine. everyone is concerned that other officials might be targeted by these people. so far there is no news of any other ones. but we're this good shape here. i'm the mayor of kaufman, and this crime did not happen p in our city, but mr. hasse's murder did occur in our city. but my plan as mayor is to get good people in place and let them do their job. we have very good police chief and the citizens of kaufman

county were wise to elect sheriff bushes to his job. and they're very good at their jobs and they will catch these people. >> can i ask you, do you feel as safe today as you did two weeks ago? >> i feel safe. this is a very low crime area. as a matter of fact, our crime rate in kaufman has been down about 60% in the last five years. which is unpress departmented for a community. >> what are you telling the people who work for you particularly in the law enforcement community what they should be doing differently today? >> i don't tell them what to do. i wouldn't know what to tell them to do differently. i'm not an expert on law enforceme enforcement. i'm a family physician. >> fair must have. >> let me talk about mike mclelland. father of five. army veteran of some 23 years. we talked to judge wood last hour and he had just talked to mr. mclelland last week.

listen to this. >> i it talk with mike several times over the last few weeks and what you saw on television with mike was very much his persona. that was not a put-on, halves his every day lifestyle. he was a very outgoing person and very dedicated to finding the killer of mark hasse. >> i understand when he would walk his dog, he would carry his gun, even taking have a care because of what happened to the assistant district attorney in your neck of the woods two months ago, that he took caution. he was also tough talking man. and well liked it seemed temperature did you know him? what was he like? >> i knew him casually. i was not a close friend. he did not live in this community before he was elected. but i talked to him on numerous

occasions and i'm halfway retired from my family physician job and part of my current work is to see the jail inmates when they get sick and i'm familiar with a lot of cases. and i believe he was doing an excellent job as district attorney. i won kerr if the governor will find anyone brave enough to at that time job of district attorney because that's what i've been told, the governor will appoint a new district attorney before long. >> that's a good question. who would want to take that job. mr. mayor, we appreciate you this morning. thank you. and bottom of the hour, we will talk to congressman ted poe, also former texas judge, talks about how he himself has been threatened being in positions of that nature. they started with 68 teams. now just four are left. we're talking about the final four of course. louisville meets wichita state in one game, syracuse taking on michigan in the other. this happens next saturday.

winners will play a week from tonight for the national championship. of course louisville paid a high price to advance. this morning it's the one gamage one moment people are talking about. louisville sophomore guard kevin ware suffering what may be the most awful sports injury i've ever seen. he snapped his leg in the first half of the game. so bad, so awful, you can see the reaction there from the players and coaches on both sides. that tells the whole story. it's too tough to watch right now. we will tell you this, ware is recovering after surgery and rick pitino says his team was inspired by this young man while still down on the sidelines. he told his teammates i'll be just fine. just win the game. want you to look at this instragram picture showing him in his hospital wedding who with louisville's trophy for winning the midwest regional. >> want to talk more about kevin

ware's injury. it was an open fracture, so elizabeth cohen is standing by. you talked about how initially the fear was just infection. >> exactly. if you have a bone sticking out, you want to make sure that you clean that up. and so it looks like that happened. he was taken to the hospital very quickly. and had a two hour surgery very quickly. this is such a gruesome accident as we can see on the faces. such a horrible thing to watch. but the doctors i talked to said it's quite fixable. we spoke with orthopedic surgeons not of course taking care of ware, but they have done the surgery many times. and what you do is you take a steel or titanium rod down the shin bone. that allows the bone to heal. and the next day, the patient is up on crutches. but they're up. so it really is a relatively easy injury to fix if it's the injury that we think it is. >> prognosis going ahead, i'm

frankly shocked by what doctors are telling you about how quick his recovery might be. >> right. doctors we talked to said six months or so. they think he will likely be playing basketball again. and these doctors have worked on other athletes with similar injuries and they say they know professional and college athletes who went back and had fabulous careers after this same kind of injury. >> that would be wonderful. >> and i'm also wondering would he be well enough to make the trip to atlanta next week to see the game at the dome? >> could be possible because again the very next day, they try to get people up on crutches. would they want him to take those risks of getting through an airport and all that kind of stuff, maybe not. but he did say those doctors did say that they do try to get them up and walking around very quickly. and they have them have physical therapy every day. so might not want him to come to atlanta because they might want him to stick to a physical therapy schedule, but he might be up for it.

>> just hobbling through the an airport, i'm sure applause. >> it would be nice for him if he could get there. >> elizabeth, thank you. >> christine romans has an update on a developing story. >> good morning. suspicious device in a passenger's carry-on forcing the vak afgts north terminal at detroit metropolitan airport. explosive device teams are on the scene. an airport spokesman says this only affects the north terminal. not the main hub. passenger delays could be several hours, but too soon to say for sure. three people feared killed during a rescue mission in the alaska wilderness. state troopers helicopter crashed after pick up a stranded snowmobiler. the wreckage was found yesterday. it's not clear why it crashed.

>> the catholic church needs to build a better relationship with the gay and lesbian community according to cardinal dolan, telling abc news it's time for the church to improve its outreach. >> we have to do better to see that our defense of marriage is not reduced to apthe tack on gay people. we try our darnedest to make sure we're not an anti-anybody. >> he's not sure how the church can improve its outreach to the gay community, but he says the process needs to begin with listening. disturbing video to show you of a school bus aid repeatedly bullying a 5-year-old boy with disabilities. >> going to teach you a lesson. >> police in port st. lucie arrested dough net take mcpherson and charged her with

stalking. they say she screamed at the boy, grabbed him, forced him into a seat. we reached out to the school district. no response yet. >> awful. >> we've seen it again and again where you have people who are dealing with kids with disabilities who seem to not have -- appear not to have any training with how to deal with children. this happens more frequently than you'd like to see. >> you just want your children scar sca cared for. still ahead, members of congress are close to a deal on immigration reform. also of course major hurdles along the way. we will talk about that with mary bono and connie mack next. >> plus google has you covered. their new april fool's prank coming you. hey! [squeals] ♪ [ewh!]

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members of the bipartisan so-called gang of eight senators working on immigration reform legislation say they should reach consensus on a draft bill by the end of this week. >> mary bono mack is a former republican congresswoman from california and connie mack former republican congressman from florida. we're talking basketball. but we have to talk immigration reform now. i wanted to ask both of you the gang of eight says they will have a draft on the bill by the end of this week. but you have the two groups afl-cio reaching a deal with the u.s. chamber of commerce on a guest worker program. these two groups, explain the significance of these groups being on board. >> well, i think what it does is if they were not on board, then they would be out attacking the bill and trying to persuade members to vote against it. the fact that they're on it shows you that they will go out and support the bill. but i think they're still a long way to go. we still have hearings that need to be done. we don't want to have another situation like we had in health

care where a bill is brought and nobody has a chance to read it. i think you'll see the senate go through the process of having hearings on the bill, understand what's in it and see if we can pass something. >> you think there is a lot more ground to cover. so does your former colleague, senator rubio, who is a member of the so-called gang of eight. and after there was a sense of progress being made, he put a chill on it over the weekend. he released a statement that got a lot of attention. he said i'm encouraged by reports of an agreement between business groups and unions on the issue of guest workers. however reports that the bipartisan group of eight senators have agree order a legislative proposal are premature. what do you think is going on there? >> well, i think first of all the compromise or the consensus between the two is just the beginning. the afl-cio and the chamber and business groups, it's just the beginning of the conversation. and i hate to argue process, but -- >> i just did. >> i know. other than connie always being

right, it's critically important. there are a lot more people who care deeply about this will. and i've always said immigration is a three legged stool and you can't shore up one at the expense of the other or the whole thing will fall apart. border security is critically important to the american people. they have to know congress will actually follow through on what they say they will do. i think the gang of eight has established some sort of sense that at least they're talking to each other. >> can i ask about rubio, though? it seemed to some people like he was trying to cover his right flank with that statement. yes, he's working with the by the partisan gang of eight, but trying to placate the conservatives of his own party and also tea party groups who could be essential for his national political future. >> whether or not he's trying to placate the right, it's important to recognize that it's not done and negotiations are ongoing. no bill is final up it's signed into what you. and there really is a very long pathway between now and then. a lot of competing interests to take into account. and i hate to say it, a lot of

egos. >> i would say this, though. i mean, it's easy to point at marco and say is he doing this for political reasons. but at the same time, i think chuck schumer went out there and maybe spoke to soon. so maybe he was playing a little bit of politics trying to force the other gang of eight into something they weren't ready to degr agree with. i think it's smart to get something done, but we need to make sure that the american people and the senate and house have an opportunity to really vet what the proposal is. >> what about north korea is this totally switching gears. last couple of day, really ratcheting up from pyongyang what we've been seeing. we learned that now there are rockets facing u.s. military bases right in the pacific, fears of some sort of action from this young leader kim jong-un. we know he's fired a number of people who were on his dad's staff. maybe shrinking his staff.

gordon chang thinks it's increasing risk the fact that he's done this. do you think he's bluffing? >> i think he's an immature brat. and so i think what he's doing is coming -- trying to go into the world stage and try to prove that he's got some muscle that he can flex. but at the same time -- >> will he flex it? >> i don't know. we need to be prepared. so making sure that we don't cut funding from vital programs that secure the united states is very, very important. >> aside from that name calling, honey, let me just say this, i think he's a wild card and i think he's dangerous because it seems that he's an unknown and he's willing to do anything for the attention that he is seeking so badly. i think they should recognize that he is a wild card. i guess it's fine that connie called him that. to me it's a little more frightening than that because nobody has any idea what he's going to do.

and i think we should go back to where is the u.n. in this, why is there so much silence surrounding this, why isn't anybody from the international community really standing up and saying that the guy is insane and seeking attention. >> all right. connie mack, mary bono mack, thank you very much for joining us. ahead this morning on starting point, even the easter bunny is not above the law. the story is beyond hilarious. the picture worth a thousand words. more than two years ago, the people of bp made a commitment to the gulf.

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welcome back to "starting point". a small texas town gripped with fear this morning as an intense manhunt gets under way for the killer or killers targeting criminal justice officials. district attorney mike mclelland and his wife were shot to death this weekend at their suburban dallas home. remember only two months ago assistant district attorney mark hasse was gunned down steps from the county courthouse. >> we talked to an attorney and friend of one of the prosecutors

killed about how this town is reacting. here s is what he told us. >> law enforcement community is very uncomfort shl. we have a county just west of here dallas county has about 2 million people in it and we're standing in a county that has about 100,000 people in the entire county. everybody knew each other here. it was a great place to practice law. everybody liked the strict attorney's office. there just wasn't a lot of activity out here. so the biggest shock out here this morning is why in kaufman, texas are we having an assistant da get killed and elected da. it's sending shockwaves through the community. >> so far police have no suspects and no motive. i want to bring in congressman ted poe who has served as prosecutor and junk in that state. good morning. >> good morning. >> let me begin with mike mclelland. you can tell us more about him? >> he was a career law

enforcement person. he served as a criminal defense lawyer, he worked in the criminal courthouse before that he served 23 years in the military. so basically a good person who believed in upholding the law. and as sdrirkt attorney, he was very well liked in kaufman county. very well respected by both kinds of the bar. prosecution and the defense. >> you were a judge and prosecutor for years. this both those jobs, you were threatened with violence. so are we doing enough to protect our law enforcement officials? >> well, you can always do more of course. judges especially those who have worked in the criminal courthouse like i did, when you hear criminal cases, the person if convicted goes to prison, but the family members and friends, associates of the individual, they don't go to prison. so you always have that constant

concern and the people getting out. but in the big scheme of things nationwide, there has really not been that many attacks on prosecutors. 13 have been killed over the last 30 years. but more prosecutors are watching out for their own safety and the safety of their families and judges, as well, because people sometimes have become more violent and don't like not only the case, but the case that the prosecutor is investigating. and in this case, it seems to me like this was a case where the d.a.'s office was investigating certain criminal gang and that's why these events may have occurred. >> so here we have congressman poe over the course of the last two months, an assistant district attorney here in kaufman county, then d.a., we were talking to the mayor a little earlier this morning and he brought up this point about who they could find to fill the role. take a listen. this is mayor fortner.

>> i believe he was doing an excellent job as district attorney. i wonder if the governor will find anyone brave enough to at that time job of district attorney because that's what i've been told the governor will appoint a new district attorney before long. >> congressman, if i can get you to react to what he said and then just also how do you fill a role where potentially he or she would have a target on his or her back. >> well, this is a small county, not very many people. really not very many attorneys. but there will be someone that the governor's office will appoint to fill the role of district attorney. my own opinion is that one of the purposes of these murders was intimidation by a group of individuals to intimidate the district attorney's office not to investigate their particular criminal activity. i do not believe that intimidation will work. there will be someone who will

step forward to continue this investigation and find the culprits who are responsible for these two homicides or really three homicides now. >> you keep referring to a group of individuals who may be involved with these crimes. there's been a lot of talk about the aryan brotherhood of texas, do you think that's a possibility or are you talking about another group in the organized crime community? >> well, i believe it is a group. it could be possibly the aryan brotherhood. the district attorney has said they operate in his portion of the state of texas. it's a prison criminal gang. when they get out, many of them continue criminal ways. the district attorney's officer was investigating this gang and they it may be they wanted to prevent that investigation. that is just one possible scenario. but i think more than one person was involved in these three

homicides now. >> just final question. if you're waking up in this small town, i know we were talking to the judge, this kind of town where your neighbors know neighbors. who do you proceed? how do you not constantly look over your shoulder? >> i'm sure that the people in kaufman county, most of them who know each other, people that come into the county, they are very concerned about maybe their safety, but also the safety of law enforcement personnel. these murders, the three murders seem to me to be specifically aimed at certain people in particular roles in law enforcement, not other people in the community. that's why now the texas rangers, fbi and law enforcement will find these culprits and bring them to justice. but people are very concerned about their own safety. >> congressman ted poe, we appreciate your time with us this morning. thank you. >> the concern is certainly understandable this morning.

let's go to christine romans for some of the other headlines. >> startling pictures when a cnn crew is caught in a firefight between u.s. forces and the taliban in afghanistan for the crew including a reporter anna coren, a rare and dangerous look at the military's elite as it hunts down the enemy. >> reporter: we got intelligence that there was an ied right in this area with a in that of associates. we've come into these open fields. >> the cnn crew is embedded with special forces in afghanistan. a frightening easter sunday for church goers near cleveland. police say a man shot and killed his father at the church entrance just as services were ending for easter sunday. and then walked inside and started ranting about god and religion. worshippers were hiding in bathrooms and escaping through windows. the suspect was taken into custody. no one else was hurt. hillary clinton planning her first paid speaking engagement since leaving the department of

state. she'll address the multinational housing council in dallas. she'll reportedly collect a six figure fee. mrs. clinton also plans to deliver two unpaid speeches this week at women's leadership events in washington and new york. ♪ talk about a moist city neighbor. a florida man was arrested twice last month for refusing to turn down the volume on his music. will presley says he's a deejay. he has to check his equipment. it's his job. some of his neighbors say the music is too loud, too long and too late. >> the baby's asleep right here and trying to put the babies down at 9:30, 10:00 and the baby won't go to sleep because all you can hear is boom, boom, boom. >> i feel like it is our freedom of speech, that it's kind of being slammed on and criminalized. that's the worst part about it is that we're all going to jail for this such simple thing. >> deejay will says he'll be pumping down the volume at home. he tells cnn, quote, i look to

find success in my business while finding a way to do so with respect for my neighbors. all right. a british boy band, a viking and racecar driver will be among the headliners this morning at the 135th annual white house easter egg roll. there were concerns the event would be canceled because the forced spending cuts, but the eggs prevail. they will roll at 10:30 a.m. eastern. 35,000 people from all 50 states will be attending. adrian peterson, that's the viking, danica patrick, the racecar driver, and the boy band the wanted all scheduled to be on hand. there you go. >> the wanted. i like deejay will right now. >> he had to turn up the music so he didn't hear the baby crying. all backwards. >> that, too. no laughs on this next one. this is what all you are tweeting about. kevin ware recovering after

surgery after this gruesome injury he suffered sunday. >> it is frankly too disturbing to see. what you can see as it happens, though, is the reaction. you see it on the bench there. you see people just covering their faces. this is coach rick pitino who was crying on the court. his teammates there also in tears. and really one of the most startling things was before he was wheeled off, coach pitino called the whole team together and kevin ware told them to go out and win it for him. >> and the people in the stands even are so powerful, you don't need to see the gruesome picture of what happened, right? i mean, it's just the power of the people who witnessed it all i think is the journalistically is the interesting and lasting thing about this. >> everyone saying this is one of the worst injuries they've ever seen. not something you would expect to see on a basketball court.

it was his right continue yarks an op tibia, open fracture. he's gone through surgery. they had to reset the bone and now he has a rod in his leg. everything i read this morning and i know elizabeth cohen was talking to us about this, this may not be a came prior ending injury despite the gruesome nature of this whole thing. he may be able to play. >> elizabeth cohen tells us he could be back six months from now. at least training six months from now. and if you watched last night, that is wonderful news. we just hope he recovers well. our thoughts are with him this morning. ahead on starting-point, a new twist in the gun control debate. why one town might order every resident to own a gun. and derek jeter sits down with rachel nichols to talk about missing today's game. [ male announcer ] how can power consumption in china,

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two other people in the van were taken to the hospital in critical condition. an oil spill in arkansas is providing ammunition for opponents of the controversial keystone pipeline, 22 homes still evacuated after thousands of barrels of oil spewed from the pegasus pipeline last week. exxonmobile is still cleaning that up and says it recovered about 12,000 barrels of oil. some environmentalists say this is exactly what they're worried about. rory mcilroy apologizing for cancelg a humanitarian visit to haiti. the world's number two golfer was supposed to be in haiti this morning in his role as a unicef ambassador. instead he's decided to play in this week's texas open to better prepare himself for the masters beginning april 11th. he's been struggling with his game. his caddie convinced him to postpone the trip and keep playing. >> nice to throw the caddie under the bus. if he promised to go to haiti,

s he should go. but the master ises is coming up. >> first job is golf. another story i want to bring to you, nelson, georgia might soon compel every household to have a gun. city council vote tonight would make it law. the council men says nelson only has one police officer and when citizens have a problem, it can take a long time for help toad 1982. >> every other time we've seen one of those votes, there is no way to enforce this. the town is just making a statement telling the world that they love their guns. >> a lot of towns have had a lot of budget cuts, they can't afford even like a fire truck now. so maybe some of those towns should make everyone have their own fire truck. >> and i think so it was a houston graduate student came up with the idea, pulling donations together to give people shotguns. it started in houston, tucson,

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we finally made it. it is opening day. all teams created equal. red sox are in first place, yankees are ins last place depending on how you look at it. opening day 2013. derek jeter starts the season on the disabled list for the first time in more than a decade. >> i appreciate your enthusiasm. most of the focus this afternoon about be on these youngsters, the victims of the sandy hook

school massacre. rachel nichols sat down with the captain to talk basketball and also about the importance of honoring those who lost their lives in the newtown tragedy. >> they will honor the victims of sandy hook. why do you think that that's particularly important? >> i don't have children of my own. i have a yuounger sister, i hav a nephew. and i can't sit here and tell you who you it would feel. but it's unimaginable to think what those families were going through. horrific incident like that, and not knowing, going to the school, not knowing whether or not your kids were safe, it's something that is just mind boggling to think about. >> you called the mother of one of the teachers, the 27-year-old protecting her kids was killed

in sandy hook. what made you decide to pick up the phone? >> first of all, i didn't do that for any attention in doing it. i just understood that she was a big yankee fan. i just did it, sdwrus to reach out and say what a hero her daughter truly was. because i think sometimes people use that term loosely. but when you're speak building a true hero there. >> as to tart opening day on the dl because of your ankle, what will be going through your head? >> it will be odd. and it's disappointing for me because i feel as though it's my job to be ready for opening day, but it didn't happen. i just ran out of time to get ready. >> what's different as you're 38 years old from when you're 22? >> well, i think the thing is you spend much more time getting ready to play. when you're younger, you just show up. you don't even have to stretch. you go out there and play and move around. now you get up at night, you have to stretch before you get out of bed. so it's a lot more difficult.

you spend much more time at the stadium. >> and what are you better at now than you were at 22, 123? >> answering questions from you. a lot of people don't realize, i've been answering your questions for years. >> i was going to say, you've been doing this since you were 22, 123. >> we've been working together for a long time. >> second act for you. is there anything else you want to accomplish? >> i really want to win again. i hear from mj all the time he won six, we won five. so he's always bragging he's got more. it would be fun to have just as many as all your friends. >> you have played baseball or thought about baseball or been preparing for baseball every day of your life probably as long as you can remember in one way or the other. what's scary about the idea of not being in the game whenever down the road it does happen? >> pretty sure i'll be involved in the game in some facet. i want to own a team one day. that's my next goal. >> are the the yankees for sale?

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